SHENZHEN, China—From an office in Shenzhen’s sprawling electronics district, an engineering team is prototyping a bioreactor that will one day produce “cultivated meat”, discussing component sizes in a video call with scientists sitting in kitchens and bedrooms in the UK.
It’s a complicated conversation about precision parts that would ordinarily need a hands-on meeting in Shenzhen, the hardware center of the world where product makers can buy and tinker with any gear they need.
